What webcomics do you read?
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2017 9:54 am
And which ones did you USED to read?
I think my longest-term one is Something*Positive, which is kind of a weird "Slice of Life" strip that goes in weird directions. As a general rule, the characters are all snarky and rude, but most of them get in trouble for it, so it's not as bad as some people say (it has a rep for over-using the "Straw Man makes Idiotic Argument and gets shot down" trope). It used to be much funnier and a bit more poignant, and I think the writer has lost a lot of steps over the years, just in terms of making things coherent or steady- SO MANY THINGS get dropped as he just forgets about them or never uses them. And a lot of really wonderful characters have dropped over the years.
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Questionable Content: It was really, REALLY good for a while, and I can still read the "100-1000" strips and enjoy them because of the characterization and their interactions- it was a really fun strip that kind of reminded me of what being in your early 20s was like. But after a point, it kind of got obsessed with certain goofy things, and there was way too much preaching about "inclusion" (usually centered around the Robots, which used to be a kind of "Mundane Fantastic" thing that people just ignored and treated like normal, but are not this major thing with civil rights and whatever), and most importantly, the writer gets a "new favorite" every year or so, which results in the complete jettisoning of the rest of the cast. Seriously, in the early days we had a lot of Raven the lovable dope... only for her to disappear completely as new girls showed up. Marigold became a big recurring character, taking over the strip for a year or two with her "dorky awkward girl" antics... only to fall off the face of the Earth when the New Girls showed up from Smif College. And then Claire took over the strip for a while, and now it's all obsessed with the Giant Robot Girl.
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"GUYS! Come quick! I found the son of a bitch who invented comic sans!"
Overall, I think Achewood is still the best one ever written. It's hard to describe to people, and harder still to get people into (the rallying cry of the Achewood fandom is "My friends still don't get it"), but it's one of the funniest, most well-thought-out, entirely insane things I've ever read. Absolutely fantastic stuff, though the writer is flat-out insane to the point where he disappears into his own insecurities a lot of the time, and so the schedule has been very sporadic. The Great Outdoor Fight is legendary for good reason, but the epic rants the characters get into is an even bigger reason to read.
I think my longest-term one is Something*Positive, which is kind of a weird "Slice of Life" strip that goes in weird directions. As a general rule, the characters are all snarky and rude, but most of them get in trouble for it, so it's not as bad as some people say (it has a rep for over-using the "Straw Man makes Idiotic Argument and gets shot down" trope). It used to be much funnier and a bit more poignant, and I think the writer has lost a lot of steps over the years, just in terms of making things coherent or steady- SO MANY THINGS get dropped as he just forgets about them or never uses them. And a lot of really wonderful characters have dropped over the years.
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Questionable Content: It was really, REALLY good for a while, and I can still read the "100-1000" strips and enjoy them because of the characterization and their interactions- it was a really fun strip that kind of reminded me of what being in your early 20s was like. But after a point, it kind of got obsessed with certain goofy things, and there was way too much preaching about "inclusion" (usually centered around the Robots, which used to be a kind of "Mundane Fantastic" thing that people just ignored and treated like normal, but are not this major thing with civil rights and whatever), and most importantly, the writer gets a "new favorite" every year or so, which results in the complete jettisoning of the rest of the cast. Seriously, in the early days we had a lot of Raven the lovable dope... only for her to disappear completely as new girls showed up. Marigold became a big recurring character, taking over the strip for a year or two with her "dorky awkward girl" antics... only to fall off the face of the Earth when the New Girls showed up from Smif College. And then Claire took over the strip for a while, and now it's all obsessed with the Giant Robot Girl.
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"GUYS! Come quick! I found the son of a bitch who invented comic sans!"
Overall, I think Achewood is still the best one ever written. It's hard to describe to people, and harder still to get people into (the rallying cry of the Achewood fandom is "My friends still don't get it"), but it's one of the funniest, most well-thought-out, entirely insane things I've ever read. Absolutely fantastic stuff, though the writer is flat-out insane to the point where he disappears into his own insecurities a lot of the time, and so the schedule has been very sporadic. The Great Outdoor Fight is legendary for good reason, but the epic rants the characters get into is an even bigger reason to read.